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10-02-2016 05:28 AM |
Those are great pictures, Paula. :love: While looking for pics as well :lol: ... I found this lovely review of the Kabby relationship in Season 3 so thought I'd share:
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This scene is full of tremendously important character growth moments for both Kane and Abby, including the beautiful little reversal of all Abby’s Season 2 worried parent scenes which I wrote about earlier, and of course the cheek kiss which I’ll get to next, but the one I found the most gut-wrenching was Kane lamenting that Pike has gotten inside Bellamy’s head and Kane can’t figure out how to pull him back into the light. “He really believes he’s doing the right thing,” Kane says, in a voice full of despair, and Abby gently reminds him, “Everybody always does.”
There’s so much to unpack in those three words. There’s so much in this moment that goes unsaid, so many startlingly important emotional revelations hanging unspoken in the air between them.
There’s the absolution that Abby is clearly offering Kane for all of the things he’s done, all of the things he torments himself for. Not just the immediate moment – not just the panic he’s currently experiencing about sending kids into danger and blaming himself for what happened with Pike – but everything that happened before. (What a perfect Bellarke parallel, too: “You want forgiveness? I’ll give that to you.” The symmetry with these two pairs is so lovely.) It’s Abby acknowledging that Kane was trying to do the right thing when he shocklashed her, when he authorized the Culling, when he tried to have her floated, when he covered up the oxygen problems to avoid panic … even when he arrested Clarke and executed Jake. Marcus Kane has always been trying to do the right thing. He was only ever trying to keep as many of his people alive as possible. He’s ****ed up a lot, and he has hated himself for it, and he became the rigid, cold, unfeeling man we met in Season 1 – the man who drinks too much and falls into a pit of self-loathing every time he makes a mistake because it destroys his entire sense of self – as a way to avoid having to face the fact that the world is far too complicated for the black-and-white morality that he held onto so tightly. But Marcus Kane was never an evil man. He was a flawed, misguided person with good intentions who did terrible things (like everyone on this show, and most people in the world).
There’s also the acknowledgment – first brought up in the underground scene and then echoed with “maybe there are no good guys” in the finale – that Abby is no better than Kane is. Abby Griffin is including herself in that “everybody.” She, also, has made terrible mistakes because of her own misguided certainty. She has also done terrible things for what she believed were the right reasons. But just like Kane, she comforted herself for a long time with her own moral superiority; for all of Season 1 and even the beginning of Season 2, they clashed violently over their insistence that each of them was the only one doing what was right. But Abby is done lying to herself about her own moral imperatives being more true, more right, more accurate, than Marcus Kane’s or anybody else’s. Abby handed Finn Collins a gun. Kane publicly flogged her. She broadcast Jake’s message to the Ark. He authorized the Culling. Everybody always thinks they’re doing the right thing. She’s telling him a hard, complicated truth she’s learned over the past months about him, about herself, about both of them together.
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I mainly quoted the important Kabby bits but the whole analysis is a pretty good read, and covers other dynamics on the show (Abby/Bellamy, Kane/Bellamy and Bellamy storyline in season 3). |
